On 1/13/2018 5:01 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 11:24:59AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: >> After reading INSTALL.octeon, I was able to write miniroot62.fs to a usb, >> plug that into the ERL, and perform a normal installation. The problem is >> that the installer was not able to detect both cores, so it only installed >> bsd.sp (bsd.mp was not an option in the set selection). >> >> Running 6.2-release. >> >> I did follow the instructions for setting the coremask=0x3 when booting the >> installer, and setting the coremask=0x3 in the bootcmd. It seems that the >> installer just wasn't able to recognize that it's a dual core system. > > I've seen this, too. For some reason bsd.rd doesn't count CPUs correctly > even with coremask=0x3. > >> To workaround this problem, I downloaded bsd.mp after installation and copied >> that to the FAT partition. My ERL can now run SMP, but as you probably >> guessed this does break KARL. > > That's what I did, too. > >> Has anyone been able to install bsd.mp on the ERL and not break KARL? > > Not me. > > Looking into this is somewhere at the far end of my todo list. > Not sure I'll ever get to it.
Thanks for the reply, Stefan! At least it's a known issue. I will watch the tree for any updates in this area.
